Hey all,
This maybe a bit early to announce this as I’m still in early development, but I’ve decided to write an extension for Bitwarden for Falkon.
First: Who am I? My names’ Mike Young. I’m Canadian. I’ve been using Linux since 1996 and KDE since … the beginning. I’ve mostly written software for work and have been wanting to start building things for the community for a while so I thought I would start with this.
Second: Why am I making this? I love Falkon. It’s light and fast enough that I use it for almost everything. The only issue is that I don’t want to store my credentials in multiple locations and across multiple devices so I use Bitwarden to do it (a desktop, 2 laptops and my phone). I was growing a bit frustrated by having to open the Bitwarden app each time I needed to log into something so i checked to see if there was an extension for BW and I didn’t see any so I started working on it.
Third: What is the state of current development?: Right now its early alpha but I’m making headway. Using the BW CLI i’ve been able to poll the vault for passwords and have them autofill into various websites. It’s not perfect yet but it works. I also have an icon that is set up that should switch to three states: 1) Unavailable ( an instance where the user does not have the bw cli installed) 2)Locked (the user’s value it locked) and 3) Unlocked (the user’s vault is unlocked). So for I’ve got that working for 2 and 3. Also, if there is an instance where a user has more then a single entry for a website, it will return those entries and allow the user to select the proper one. So, allllll that said, I’m still a far ways off from releasing a beta. I still need to work on the UID, handing logging into and out of the vault, locking and unlocking the vault etc etc. Ultimately its my goal to mirror as closely as possible the feel of the extensions available in the other browsers.
Forth: When will it be released?: When it’s ready? I’m not 100 percent sure. I’m hoping though in the next few weeks. Once it is ready, I’ll put it up in github and store.kde.org and put an announcement up here.
Ultimately I’m building this for my own use but I’m hoping that someone else finds it useful as well.
Thanks!
